Grace’s Blog

Trillions of cells depend on you to feed them daily.  Billions of new ones are created every day.  They need high quality nutrition to keep them functioning properly.

We are told to eat a balanced diet.  We try, but it is not always easy getting 7-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.  How are you doing?

Even when we can get all we should, the foods we eat containing the nutrients our cells need, just aren’t meeting our needs.  In fact, a 2004 study of 43 crops showed a decline in the nutrient content of up to 38% over the past 50 years.  It is now 2011, how much more of a decline has there been?

Your body cannot manufacture all the nutrients it needs on it own.  It needs your help.  Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle can prevent many major diseases 60-90% of the time!

Those major diseases are up.  In 10 years from 1999-2009, heart disease is up 9.3%, cancer 19.6%, and diabetes is up a whopping 34.5%!

Yet according to the American Heart Association, 80% of all heart disease in women is preventable with proper nutrition and healthy lifestyle choices.

The American Cancer Society reports that 60% of all cancer-related deaths can be prevented by improving lifestyle choices—being physically active, losing weight, stopping smoking, and getting proper nutrition.

Diabetes is the illness multiplier.  It contributes to more than 230,000 deaths very year.  A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that 90% of all type 2 diabetes is preventable with proper nutrition, achieving a healthy weight, and engaging in other healthy lifestyle behaviors.

Are you seeing a trend here? 

We are overfed and undernourished.  Our super busy lifestyles drive us to make compromises of convenience with regard to what we eat, when we eat, and how much we eat.  Many products that are marketed as “healthy” foods are filled with sugar, fat, and artificial ingredients.

Make an investment in yourself.  Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle can help prevent health issues in the future.

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Thirty years ago the medical community was just beginning to understand the negative health consequences of being overweight.

Thirty years later a dreadful amount of money is being spent on health issues related to being overweight.

What we call a “Health Care System” is not a health care system at all.  It is a disease management system.

In 1985, 10% of the population was obese.

In 1995, a whole new category emerged with 15-20% obese.

In 2000, another new category emerged with 20-25% obese and extremely overweight.

In 2004 the Surgeon General said that 65% of American adults, or 2 out of 3, were overweight to extremely overweight.  Alarm bells started going off.

Adults, and now children and teenagers are increasing their numbers at an alarming rate in being overweight.  In 2009 when the most recent stats came out, there is now another new category.

Thirty to 40 percent of the population is at risk to shorten their lifespan as a result of being obese.  The future looks grim with forty million to three-hundred million people being overweight to obese.

Trends as we go forward in the coming years do not look good.  Children born before 2000 will have a one out of three chance of developing diabetes.  They will be the first generation who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

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If you’re drinking soda — (especially from fast food) you want to read this.

A new study finds that soda fountains are crawling with bacteria. Not just any bacteria, but coliform bacteria.

Researchers tested 90 soda and water samples from 30 different fast food restaurants in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley.

In all, 70 percent tested positive for some form of bacteria–and many of them were resistant to one or more of 11 different antibiotics tested on them, according to the study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology.

The researchers found 48 percent tested positive for coliform, 17 percent tested positive for Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and 11 percent tested positive for E. coli. They also found species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia.

In plain English, that means there are lots of nasty germs living in those soda machines.

The bacteria appear to love the plastic tubes that send soda (and some of the bacteria) into your cup. Since customers don’t touch those tubes, the researchers believe restaurant workers with dirty hands are likely contaminating them–ironically, probably when they’re cleaning them.

The researchers tested bottled soda to use as a control group and found no contamination.

But there are plenty of other reasons to avoid those, too.

Soda has been linked to tooth decay and obesity. Even diet soda can help you pack on pounds–studies have found people who drink diet sodas actually gain weight, and may be even more prone to diabetes.

Soda has also been linked to lower calcium levels, leading to bone loss and osteoporosis.

I could go on, but I think most of us know this stuff isn’t very good for us.

Don’t replace soda with other canned or bottled drinks. I’ve been telling you quite a bit lately about the health benefits of coffee and tea, so considering brewing your own and enjoying them–hot or iced–throughout the day.

And if you want some fizz, stick to carbonated water.

Just don’t get it from a soda fountain!

Thank you, Dan Henderson, for this information.

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